Really? When bad things in your life are impossible to change, wouldn't that be a reason? When you reach the point where suicide is not only a viable solution but the only logical solution left, wouldn't that be a reason? When a person is so damaged from physical and psychological abuse that ending your pain it is more important than hurting anyone with your death, wouldn't that be a reason? If your death wouldn't hurt anyone because there is no one left who cares, wouldn't that be a reason?

I'm sure I'll get banned for this statement, but it's obvious you don't have a clue of what is involved with truly feeling so much pain that suicide is not just the only solution, it is the best one. Try to have some perspective on how bad life can be, even if yours hasn't been.

Eating myself to death? That is some of what got me to where I am now. I currently have a defibrillator installed in my chest. Eating myself to death would most likely be the slowest death I could imagine filled with months of pain. Do you know how much life sucks and how much pain is involved with being morbidly obese?

And as far as the strength to live, I just don't have it. I have tried to better myself. Tried to change my life for the better, but I don't have the willpower and strength that most other people have. I currently exist but I do not live. After 37 years it's just not worth it anymore.

"And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. And thus saith the Lord God; I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities." (2 Nephi 5:21)

Those who rebelled were called Lamanites and those who did not were called Nephites.

The mark of blackness was placed upon the Lamanites so the Nephites "might not mix and believe in incorrect traditions which would prove their destruction" (Alma 3:7-9). The Book of Mormon records the Lord as forbidding miscegenation between Lamanites and Nephites (2 Nephi 5:23)

The Book of Mormon records that a group of Lamanites converted and that "their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites… and they were numbered among the Nephites, and were called Nephites" (3 Nephi 2:15-16).

In conclusion, based DIRECTLY FROM THE SCRIPTURES, people are black because their ancestors were evil. The scriptures specifically outlaw interracial marriage, and when black people repent their evil they become white.

My appendix burst in the emergency room while I waited for 6½ hours to be seen. My temperature skyrocketed past 106° and I was told it wasn't good. Even after they got my temp down and I went into surgery, I was told I also had e-coli and salmonella. Yeah, that was a fun week.

Natto. Imagine soy beans sitting on a shelf for several weeks. When they decay, they form a sticky, mucus-like substance between the beans. Apparently this is a delicacy in Japan. Beans, mucus and all. I couldn't even swallow one bite. It was horrible.

It's the only thing i have ever tried that has made me re-think the whole "I'll try anything once" mantra about food.

The last time I was in Japan, I went to the Yushukan. This is a rather large museum focused on World War II and the events that lead up to it. Almost all of the signs were in English, and it was a rather different history than what U.S. children learn. If I remember correctly....

-->Late 1800s, all major powers were trying to get a foothold in China (U.S., U.K., etc).

-->Following the Boxer Rebellion in China that rejected all foreigners form the country, communism started to take hold.

-->Japan invaded to stop the spread of communism.

-->The other superpowers were angry that japan was getting a foothold where they did not, so sanctions against Japan started.

-->Japan's resources were seriously starting to suffer from all the sanctions. Japan decided they had no choice but to attack those who were threatening the prosperity of their country.

-->Bombing of Pearl Harbor

It was a very interesting telling of events and completely different than what I learned as a child. I highly recommend a visit if you are ever in Tokyo.

I had just started high school in 1991 and convinced my parents we needed a computer. Well, I needed one for Starflight II and Monkey Island. My mother comes in and sees me typing away, so she asked what I was doing. "Talking with some guy in Italy." It was a librarian in Italy practicing his English and learning about the internet. Talking with someone around the world just because I could was beyond awesome at the time.